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[Help]Strange App Installation Issue

I've applied the market fix to my Charge, and things display properly, but I'm occasionally having an issue with being able to install apps. I'll download something from the market, but it won't go past the installation progress bar and say its complete. If I force-close the market and re-open it, the option to download is either greyed out, or it won't go past the button to accept the permissions. Like the button will register but then nothing happens and I'll be at that same screen.
Once it happens with one app it seems to stop all others from installing too, in either Android Market or the Amazon App Store. Only way I've really found to fix it is to boot into CWM, clear cache and Dalvik cache, reboot, and wait for everything to populate from my sd card. Even then it will often re-occur after awhile.
After clearing the dalvik cache it often takes quite some time for the apps on my sdcard to show up as installed and actually work, despite the media scan showing completed right after I boot. And sometimes I'll have to force a screen redraw to see the icons. I'm also occasionally having a force close, freeze, or system restart, though those are pretty rare.
I'm running EE4 basebands, imnuts PBJ kernel with voodoo (6-02), and the deodexed EE4 ROM. I've flashed the sd card read-only fix, market fix, AOSP lockscreen, and accurate battery mod. I don't know what's going on, but while I love how fast my phone is now, its really getting tiring having to reboot it from time to time just get app installations to work.
I don't know if I should try reflashing everything, or just run GummyCharged. Does anyone have any ideas about what may be going on??

Cruiserdude said:
I don't know if I should try reflashing everything, or just run GummyCharged. Does anyone have any ideas about what may be going on??
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Make sure you don't have any apps installed on the SD card. That causes nothing but problems and lagginess. Settings->Applications->Manage Applications click tab on installed on SD card. Move all apps to internal memory.

[Q] Apps constantly closing for no reason

This has been happening on basically every rom that I flash. It never happens as soon as I flash, but will start happening within a few weeks usually. I am running Octane right now, and absolutely love it. It is very fast and I have amazing battery life. The last week I have been using it have been a nightmare though. Almost every time I open messaging and dialer, they will instantly close again. It isn't a force close though. It is just like I hit the home button right after opening them. This is extremely annoying, does anyone have a solution?

yentlequible said:
This has been happening on basically every rom that I flash. It never happens as soon as I flash, but will start happening within a few weeks usually. I am running Octane right now, and absolutely love it. It is very fast and I have amazing battery life. The last week I have been using it have been a nightmare though. Almost every time I open messaging and dialer, they will instantly close again. It isn't a force close though. It is just like I hit the home button right after opening them. This is extremely annoying, does anyone have a solution?
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First, try the task killer, if the problem is still there, odin back to stock:
first odin this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1187293
Then odin this foe voodoo and root:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1194032

did you ever try clearing your cache and fixing permissions?
are you restoring with titanium backup?

Clear cache and davlik do a factory reset too i always reset after i put a new rom on i always get a little trouble if not
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it may be a memory management problem, i use blade buddy and change the dalvik.vm.heapsize to 64m under advance settings. i haven't had any problems so far

jager555 said:
did you ever try clearing your cache and fixing permissions?
are you restoring with titanium backup?
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I have cleared my cache. Not sure about fixing permissions though. I restore a few apps with Titanium Backup, but not a lot.
HB66 said:
it may be a memory management problem, i use blade buddy and change the dalvik.vm.heapsize to 64m under advance settings. i haven't had any problems so far
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Ill try this out, thanks.

[Q] Dailer Force closing

So, 60% of the time when I type a phone number into my dailer, by the third or fourth number my dailer will disappear and I'll be staring at my home screen. I didn't start experiencing this till I flashed Vahalla on my phone and I've experienced through ICBINB GB, Stock Froyo (for testing purposes), and now on airflips official AOSP GB rom.
Could it be my VCF card is corrupt? Has anyone experienced this problem and fixed it?

Clear the cache on the Dialer, make sure you back up your contacts first. if that doesn't work you might have to do a factory reset on the phone. I have had similar issues before.

I get it occasionally, I have to lock and unlock my phone to get it to stop. I'm assuming its a error in the apk itself.
Are you Using a custom dialer in all cases? Or just in the custom roms?
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Had it fixed it by clearing cache and fixing permissions

hechoen said:
Had it fixed it by clearing cache and fixing permissions
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+1
I was having this issue for the last few days (probably) and didn't notice until yesterday. Fixing permissions fixed the issue.

Does the issue come back for y'all, because I've done that and it will come back at some point in the near future after the wipe and perm fix. If it keeps happening, after the third consecutive time I just let it sit for 10 seconds and type out the number and it will work. That's why I think it has something to do with loading my contacts up from the file.
Are there alternative dialer applications to use that would fix this problem that anyone has used and recommends? I'm at my wits end with this problem.

It may be an issue with the build.prop. Try backing it up and pushing the stock build.prop. I had a similar issue with the phone hanging, and it was my build.prop
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i would wipe the dialer data in the settings-application-manage menu. then fix permissions.

[Q] Phone, contacts and messages keep closing

I have Galaxy S with Android 2.3.4 JVR and it works like a charm - with this one exception: sometimes (too often) phone, contacts and messages (sms) keep closing. This happens usually within a second or two after opening up them. There's no force close message, it just returns to the home screen without any warning. If I reopen it, it usually does the same a couple of times, but eventually I get it to open.
At first I thought this must be a memory issue. However, I have Autokiller installed (my phone is rooted) and I have usually >100M free memory. Then I thought it must be Autokiller killing the dialer, contacts or messages apps. BUT: this happened also before I had Autokiller installed, so it can't be that either. The strangest thing is that I tried installing GO SMS Pro and GO Contacts + Dialer, and even they do the same thing occasionally (close immediately after I open them), so it isn't a problem with apps either.
I am bedazzled here, could somebody please help me? This starts to get really annoying, since the dialer, contacts and messages are the feature you normally use most in your phone!

I have the exact same problem! Somebody, please help

the phone app and etc. seem to be corrupt or something
try reflashing.If you keep getting the problem then revert back to your previous rom =/

Is there any way to try to replace only the phone etc. apps without flashing the whole rom?

from my experience no but you can try replacing phone.apk sms.apk etc with the previous rom's apps

The funny thing is that I have a stock 2.3.4 JVR, so it should be stable.

Plus, did I mention that this happens only sometimes? Sometimes they work ok. But this happens often enough to be annoying. You know, when you would have to make a quick phone call you have to open the phone app like 3-4 times, only then you're able to make it. I wondered if the the problem could still be in the dialer, contacts and messaging apps even if the problem occurred only sometimes?

In addition, the calendar app has done this a couple of times. Could it be that there's a conflicting app that's causing this? If so, do you have any suggestion what it would be?

Autokiller made my phone do some really funny stuff. After installing it i was having random reboots and apps crashing so i uninstalled and problem solved. You said it was happening before you installed it though so im just guessing that you need to either wipe cache and dalvik then reboot or do a full wipe and reinstall of your rom. When you do the full wipe go into mounts and storage and wipe system too

Hi and thanks for your comment. What are the effects of wiping the cache and the dalvik cache? Do I lose important data? Or can I do it safely? Sorry, I'm a bit of a n00b with android. I suppose you wipe the cache in download mode, right?

I experience exactly the same issue as you-though I am on stock jvu.I come from 2.3.3, stock as well, using chainfire root both times.
Sometimes phone contacts and message s close immediately after opening them, often several times. and sometimes everythings fine
here you can find some information about dalvik and normal cache wipe..your data will be safe-only first boot will take longer.I will try wiping now, too-reporting back then.
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For now wiping seems to have worked well and fixed the problem here..I need some more testing though-will keep you up to date here
edit 2: damn! The issue's still there.anyone got more ideas?
G'day!

I have the exact same problem with JVU and I had this problem with 2.3.3 but less frequent. I have no choice but to reboot the phone when it happen. I suspect it's caused by one of the widget (email and Go weather) that I put on the desktop. Going to remove the two widgets from desktop and see if it's help.
Whitest said:
I experience exactly the same issue as you-though I am on stock jvu.I come from 2.3.3, stock as well, using chainfire root both times.
Sometimes phone contacts and message s close immediately after opening them, often several times. and sometimes everythings fine
here you can find some information about dalvik and normal cache wipe..your data will be safe-only first boot will take longer.I will try wiping now, too-reporting back then.
Edit:
For now wiping seems to have worked well and fixed the problem here..I need some more testing though-will keep you up to date here
edit 2: damn! The issue's still there.anyone got more ideas?
G'day!
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earthman5678 said:
I have the exact same problem with JVU and I had this problem with 2.3.3 but less frequent. I have no choice but to reboot the phone when it happen. I suspect it's caused by one of the widget (email and Go weather) that I put on the desktop. Going to remove the two widgets from desktop and see if it's help.
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Okay, that sounds interesting - though I am not sure wheter a widget could cause this...
I am still running JVU but now with Galaxian Kernel instead of Chainfires root Kernel - flashed with SGS Kernel Flasher and still got root - and it runs very stable and fast 'till now. No more closing of phone, contacts and messages so far -.- since 2 days.
I'll tell you when it happens again, but so far it seemed to be a kernel issue for me...

I've been having the same issues with my Samsung SideKick 4G. messages would keep closing as I was typing them, I would lag and the key I pressed would "press again" like 15 more times, sometimes I just couldn't open a conversation, other times I couldnt answer phone calls cause the UI lagged.
That was all on stock firmware, and I got fed up with it so I tried to flash a custom ROM on it, and before I did that I had it OC'd to 1.2GHz which was actually pretty great. Needless to say, I screwed up on flashing the ROM and now I'm looking for firmware to odin back to stock. =\

force close

Keep getting force closing when I click contacts or when I click the picture in messaging that brings up a bunch of options. I've reloaded my rom from scratch atleast 4 times. It works for a day or so then out of nowhere stops working and gives me force closes.

pizzle11 said:
Keep getting force closing when I click contacts or when I click the picture in messaging that brings up a bunch of options. I've reloaded my rom from scratch atleast 4 times. It works for a day or so then out of nowhere stops working and gives me force closes.
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You don't have to start from scratch. If you just mount /system, wipe dalvik and cache (not sure if it's needed but never a bad idea), then re-flash the rom (no DATA wipe) it will fix the error and keep everything in tact.

Ill do that. Thanks. Any idea how to prevent it?

pizzle11 said:
Ill do that. Thanks. Any idea how to prevent it?
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I believe I remember them mentioning it in the Tweaked forum. Not sure if they mentioned what actually caused it. I know Go Launcher (not sure if you use it or not) had a problem with it a lil while back also. I've had it happen once but can't quite remember if there was a specific reason or if it was just random (like when everyone was randomly losing root after a flash)

Thanks for the responses. I did what yiy recommended and it worked perfectly. I was wiping data each time,hence the frustration.